|
Hey Brian, I'll have to re-install the system from scratch in order to be able to answer some of your questions, which I'll get started on this evening. What I was hoping for in the first instance was a sanity check of our installation methods. With respect to the OFED stack used, we are using the latest official software stack supplied by Voltaire. The reason for this is that there is more to OFED than just the kernel modules, including many libraries and tools, plus the latest firmware for the cards. It's what the customer has asked for, and it is what the card vendor expects us to do. We may be able to get away with OFED 1.3, but I would still like some guidance on how to install the rest of the OFED stack -- do we use the OFED source to rebuild everything, or can we pick the Lustre supplied kernel modules and just layer on the other stuff separately? Like I said, sanity-checking the install procedure is important. Finally, when I said that one file system fails versus another passes, I mean that the server locks solid, crashes, usually with no debug to speak of (nothing in the system logs). Even while the system is up and running the lustre kernel, if we attempt a clean shutdown, the kernel panics. Since I need to rebuild the systems anyway, I will also try to install the packages in the order mentioned by Megan Larko, to see how that affects the installation. We have been following the instructions in the Lustre Operations Manual (v. 1.14). Regards, Malcolm. Brian J. Murrell wrote: On Mon, 2008-10-06 at 10:58 +0100, Malcolm Cowe wrote: --
|
_______________________________________________ Lustre-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.lustre.org/mailman/listinfo/lustre-discuss
